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Entry: Huckabee: The New Huey Long Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/huckabee_the_new_huey_long#12100 Post contents: Huckabee's "Flat Tax" (abolishing the progressive income tax) has about as much chance of being enacted, as Ron Paul's call to return to the "Gold Standard"....both are ridiculous notions, and nobody wants either of them, especially the "Values Voters" that Huckabee is romancing. It's really tiresome for "libertarians" to go around pretending they are going to appeal to white working class and middle class voters that make up the bedrock of the Republican Party vote with issues like abolishing the progressive income tax or privatizing social security or the Federal Reserve. The hot issues for them are defending their communities and families from the forces of neo-Marxism or “multi-culturalism/diversity” crowd, and doing something about their declining economic security, which means a return to economic nationalism. Hey, Daniel, that means stopping ALL immigration, not just illegal immigration until wages start rising again, as well as dumping “free trade” (actually not really free at all) and getting out of “free trade” agreements like NAFTA. That’s not CATO/AHF/FED/World Bank/IMF “libertarianism” by any means. Which is the only REAL “libertarianism” there is. The US war to modernize thee Mideast, turn Islam into the equivalent of the Episcopal Church, and securing the oil to continue propping up the Petro-Dollar is a war to defend the “libertarian” vision of a world without borders or trade barriers Sent at: 2008 07 06